The Bihar government plans to provide insurance cover to migrant workers from the state, who are scattered all across the country to earn livelihood.
The day-long Bihar bandh was called by various student organisations, particularly AISA, the student wing of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), an ultra Left party, to protest attacks on north Indian candidates during a railway recruitment examination in Mumbai.
A Patna fast track court on Friday acquitted Janata Dal-United member of Parliament, Prabhunath Singh and six others for lack of evidence in double murder case of 1995, a court official said.
Jagdish Prasad, father of Pawan Kumar, who was allegedly killed by MNS activists in Mumbai, filed a murder case against Raj Thackeray in the court of the chief judicial magistrate, Biharsharief, Nalanda. A court official told rediff.com that Jagdish Prasad has filed a case against Raj Thackeray under 302 of IPC.
Hundreds of slogan-shouting students descended on Barh railway station in Rural Patna demanding that Thackeray, who has been arrested, be tried for sedition, and set ablaze the coach of the Danapur-Durg South Bihar Express, Superintendent of Railway Police (Patna) D N Gupta said.
Nitish Kumar requested Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh to deal with such divisive elements with an iron fist. "I expect the Maharashtra government to act tough and protect our students," Nitish Kumar said in Patna on Monday morning.
Hundreds of families of missing people in the flood-affected districts of Madhepura, Saharsa, Supaul, Purnia and Araria, are optimistic that their missing kin will be traced. They have been running from pillar to post ever since water receded to get information about their dear ones.
Seven children have been killed by deadly kala azar (black fever) in flood-hit Bihar's Purnia district and dozens are suffering from it. Official sources in Purnia district administration told rediff.com on Saturday that seven children died in last 10 days in the Sadar hospital in Purnia town and several childrens affected by the disease have been admitted in the hospital.
Security has been tightened at Vishnupad temple in Gaya town in Bihar, following a bomb threat, sources said on Saturday.An official of the Gaya district administration said that a terrorist outfit had sent a SMS to a senior district official, threatening a bomb blast at the temple. "After receiving the message threatening the blast, the district administration is taking no chances" he said.
Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Mohammad Shahabuddin has got 10-year imprisonment in a case under the Arms Act.
The Bihar government has prepared an extensive action plan for completing Kosi breach closure work by November 30, official sources said.
Tracking hundreds of missing people, particularly women and children, in flood-hit Bihar is proving to be the biggest challenge for the state government and the non governmental organisations involved in relief and rehabilitation.Hundreds of people were seen queuing up in front of relief camps in the flood-affected districts of Madhepura, Saharsa, Supaul, Purnia and Araria to trace their missing family members. Thousands of people have been separated from their families.
Additional sessions judge of the fast track court, Om Prakash sentenced Shankar Sah to death. The Court also awarded life imprisonment to Ashish Kumar, Manohar Kumar, Anil Oraon and two year imprisonment to Ramchandra Mahto.
A Patna court on Wednesday sentenced Janata Dal-United member of the Legislative Assembly Narendra alias Sunil Pandey and four others to life imprisonment in the sensational kidnapping of neurosurgeon Ramesh Chandra, official sources said.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Home Minister Shivraj Patil arrived in Purnea in Bihar on Thursday for a visit to the flood-hit districts. Dr Singh, Gandhi and Patil will undertake an aerial survey of the flood-affected districts in an Indian Air Force helicopter.Dr Singh is scheduled to review the relief and rescue measures at a high-level meeting with senior officials of the state government, before returning to Delhi.
In yet another instance of kidnapping in Bihar, a 23-year-old MBA student Pratibha Anand was kidnapped from Patna for ransom, police sources said on Saturday. Pratibha, a student of MBA at Patna-based Zakir Hussain Management Insitutute, was kidnapped from Digha police station area on Thursday when she was returning to her residence after depositing college fees.
Bad roads in Bihar are nothing new, but now it has forced state ministers to say goodbye to swanky, new cars and demand Ambassador cars as they are more comfortable on rough and bumpy roads. Old is gold appears to impress Bihar's ministers, who want Ambassadors for official use in place of cars like the Indigo and Scorpio.
Ramadhar Singh, the jailor of Siwan jail where Shahabuddin is currently lodged, has filed an FIR against Shahabuddin for abusing, misbehaving and threatening him.
Two months after he topped the Joint Entrance Examination for admission to the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Patna resident Shitikanth has won the gold medal at the 39th International Physics Olympiad held at Hanoi, Vietnam.The International Physics Olympiad was held between July 22 and July 28, said Shitikanth's father Dr Arun Kumar Barnwal.Shitikanth, who was one of the students selected to represent India, said that he was excited after winning the gold medal
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav has fulfilled wish of his wife Rabri Devi by establishing a railway link between Phulwaria, his ancestral village with Salar Kalan, her village in Gopalganj district.
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